First Civilizations
This is where the first civilizations arose because of farming conditions.
What are river valleys?
As cities grew, they gained political and economic control over the lands around them, forming these.
What are city-states?
This is a group of many different lands under one ruler.
What is an empire?
The Assyrians took this, or forced payments, from conquered people.
What is tribute?
These are people who studied heavenly bodies, mapped the stars, the planets, and the phases of the moon as it changed.
Who are astronomers?
Flooded rivers were filled with this, or small fertile particles of soil.
What is silt?
The Sumerian people worshiped many gods, a type of belief called this.
What is polytheism?
This is a long poem that records the deeds of a legendary or real hero.
What is an epic?
The Assyrians divided their empire into these, or political districts.
What are provinces?
Merchants came to the city of Babylonia in traveling groups called these.
What are caravans?
This is a system that supplies dry land with water through ditches, pipes or streams.
What is irrigation?
To honor its god, a city-state often included a large temple called this.
What is a ziggurat?
He was the King of the Mesopotamian Empire (this was the first empire).
Who is Sargon?
Due to a surplus of crops, many farmers became skilled __________, making metal, cloth and pottery.
What are artisans?
The ancient wonder of the world King Nebuchadnezzar built in Babylon for his wife.
What are the hanging gardens?
Irrigation let early farmers grow this, or extra amounts of food.
What is surplus?
The Sumerians created a way of writing called this.
What is cuneiform?
This is the world’s oldest story written in clay over 4,000 years ago.
What is the Epic of Gilgamesh?
This is the city where the first library was built.
What is Nineveh?
The area between the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf is called this because of its excellent crop growing conditions.
What is the Fertile Creseant?
The word Mesopotamia means this in Greek.
What is "the land between the rivers?"
After years of training, some male students became these, or official record keepers.
What are scribes?
He was considered a fair ruler and was best known for creating a set of laws for his empire.
Who is Hammurabi?
Historians believe is the most important contribution made by the Mesopotamians.
What is writing?
This was the largest and richest city in the Chaldean Empire.
What is Babylon?